This popular image-saving Chrome extension was just flagged as malware

Honey-like affiliate hijack in question ...
GIGAZINE

Review of ``WebP / Avif image converter'' browser extension that can convert, download and save WebP / AVIF images to JPEG and PNG format

An increasing number of websites are adopting 'WebP' and 'AVIF' as the format for images inserted into pages. However, many image viewers and image editing software do not support WebP or AVIF, ...
Windows Report

Microsoft Banned This Extension But Google Kept Promoting It

Google finally removed the popular "Save image as Type" Chrome extension for secretly stealing affiliate commissions, a full ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google’s John Mueller Clarifies WebP Image Indexing Confusion

Unclear extensions may cause image files to appear in Search Console's "Crawled - currently not indexed" report. WebP images aren't indexed as HTML pages. WebP offers ...
Techno-Science.net

5 Best Ways to Open WebP Images on Windows 10/11

We all love to download various images or image files from social media, create images for online collages or just do a simple Google search. Usually, when we download these images, we hardly pay ...